# ὁρίζω
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* οὐρίζω (ourízō) — Ionic

### Etymology

From ὅρος (hóros, “boundary, border”) +‎ -ίζω (-ízō).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ho.ríz.dɔː/ → /oˈri.zo/ → /oˈri.zo/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /ho.ríz.dɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /(h)oˈri.zo/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /oˈri.zo/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /oˈri.zo/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /oˈri.zo/

### Verb

ὁρίζω • (horízō)
* to divide, separate from
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.16
** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 636
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 9.5
** to separate
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 501b.16
*** Autol., Sph. 4
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.51
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.123
*** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Lycophron, Alexandra 1289
** to delimit
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 944a
** to bound
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1017b.17
*** 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 295
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.71
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.96
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.6.21
** to pass between or through
*** 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 433
** to part, divide
*** 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 941
*** 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 128
*** 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 1459
* to mark out
** 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 1670
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.142
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.108
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 754
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.82
** to trace as a boundary
*** 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 546
* to ordain, determine, lay down
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 927
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 542a.19
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1002b.18
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 369b.29
** 350 BCE, Aristotle, On the Heavens 273a.14
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1285b.22
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 2 24
** 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 218
** 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 259
** 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 1222
** 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 979
** 396 BCE – 323 BCE, Lycurgus of Athens, Collected Works 65
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 864e
** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 452
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 24
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.7.36
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.35
** to define a thing
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Charmides 171a
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 4.6.4
* (middle voice) to mark out for oneself
** 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 256
** 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 696
** 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 969
** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, On the Property of Eraton 6
** 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 470b
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 237
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.5.13
** to determine for oneself
*** 343 BCE, Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 241
*** 341 BCE, Demosthenes, Third Philippic 19
*** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Funeral Oration 19
** to define a thing
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1104b.24
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1128b.11
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1166a.2
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1170a.16
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Topics 141b.24
*** 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 475a
*** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 505c
*** 360 BCE, Plato, The Sophist 246b
*** 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 190e
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 4.6.6
* (intransitive) to border upon
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.42
* (Attic law) to have marked with ὅροι (hóroi)
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Onetor 2 5
** ante 177 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 9.9

#### Derived terms

* ἀμφορίζω (amphorízō)
* ἀνθορίζω (anthorízō)
* ἀφορίζω (aphorízō)
* δῐορίζω (dĭorízō)
* ἐξορίζω (exorízō)
* κᾰθορίζω (kăthorízō)
* μεθορίζω (methorízō)
* πᾰρορίζω (părorízō)
* περιορίζω (periorízō)
* προορίζω (proorízō)
* προσορίζω (prosorízō)
* σῠνορίζω (sŭnorízō)
* ὑπερορίζω (huperorízō)

#### Related terms

* ἀόριστος (aóristos)
* ὁρίζων (horízōn)
* ὅρισῐς (hórisĭs)
* ὅρισμᾰ (hórismă)
* ὁρισμός (horismós)
* ὁριστέον (horistéon)
* ὁριστής (horistḗs)
* ὁριστῐκός (horistĭkós)
* ὁριστός (horistós)
* ὡρισμένως (hōrisménōs)

#### References

* “ὁρίζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ὁρίζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* ὁρίζω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* G3724 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible